{"id":868432,"date":"2025-08-27T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/worlds-oldest-ankylosaur-had-uniquely-elaborate-dermal-armor\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:13:09","slug":"worlds-oldest-ankylosaur-had-uniquely-elaborate-dermal-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/worlds-oldest-ankylosaur-had-uniquely-elaborate-dermal-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Oldest Ankylosaur Had Uniquely Elaborate Dermal Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Paleontologists have described a new specimen that confirms the ankylosaurian affinities of Spicomellus, and demonstrated that it has uniquely elaborate dermal armor unlike that of any other vertebrate, living or extinct.<br \/>\nThe post World\u2019s Oldest Ankylosaur Had Uniquely Elaborate Dermal Armor appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/spicomellus-afer-14173.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Paleontologists have described a new specimen that confirms the ankylosaurian affinities of Spicomellus, and demonstrated that it has uniquely elaborate dermal armor unlike that of any other vertebrate, living or extinct. The post World\u2019s Oldest Ankylosaur Had Uniquely Elaborate Dermal Armor appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;Read MoreNews Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":868433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,536,1329],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-868432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oldest","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-worlds"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}